Just your average game of footy, interrupted by your average super advanced alien race with high-tech weapons and bad arse armour. Hang on, what?
A new alien invasion movie is on its way, and it looks like Tomorrow, When the War Began on steroids. The Australian sci-fi Occupation, which rolls into cinemas on July 12, tells the story of a group of people whose country town home is annihilated by an army of angry extraterrestrials.
These people then, according to the official synopsis, “discover they are among the last remaining survivors of an extraterrestrial invasion engulfing the entire planet.”
The film may have been influenced by the 2003 genre movie Undead, which had a good old fashioned cricket game being interrupted by an alien invasion (which also caused a zombie apocalypse).
The trailer for Occupation shows a wee bit of football taking place.
But then the lights go out and the players get distracted…
Because of this.
And this.
Occupation is the latest film from writer/director Luke Sparke, who made the 2016 horror suspense movie Red Billabong. The cast includes Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Stephanie Jacobeon, Bruce Spence and Jacqueline McKenzie.
The film was shot on the Gold Coast in late 2017, with a crew and supporting cast of more than 300 people.
Occupation will have its World Premiere at Sydney’s Ritz Cinema on July 19. The film will arrive in cinemas across Australia two days later, and in New Zealand on July 26.
